Orange County NC Website
Browse       Search
3 <br /> 7 -' Local planning boards and staffs most of necessity concentrate upon <br /> activities of more or less immediate benefit to their units: short range plan- <br /> ning, development and administration of land-use regulations, :preparation of <br /> Community Development programs, etc. This prevents their giving attention to <br /> goal-setting and citizen-participation activities on the scale which the Committee <br /> deems desirable. <br /> II. ALTERNATIVES CONSIDERED AND FACTORS DEEMED IMPORTANT <br /> Because all local governments are creatures of the State and must operate <br /> within the framework of statutory powers granted by the General Assembly, the <br /> Committee began its search for an organizational solution to the problems out- <br /> lined in Section I by examining this statutory framework. <br /> The Committee was pleased to discover that the General Statutes no longer: <br /> contain rigid specifications concerning the manner in which local governments <br /> . may organize their planning programs. On the contrary,'„they offer such govern. <br /> ments almost carte blanche to create an appropriate organization (see especially <br /> G.S. 153A-76; G.S. Chapter 153A, Articles 18, 19, and 20; G.S. 160A-146; <br /> G.S. <br /> Cha ter 160A, Articles l9, 20, 22, and 23; however, both Cb-.rjpel Dill and Carrboro <br /> p <br /> have charter provisions differing somewhat from the pattern of the General <br /> .... - .. <br /> Statutes-`4hith must _be` taken- into account <br /> - Y-- In view of this general statutory freedom to respond {to problems in a W ` <br /> rational manner, the Committee has considered a wide range of alternatives. It <br /> recognizes that there is no one solution to any organizatiarial problem; aril that <br /> es could be made to each of the problems it <br /> a variety of organizational respons <br /> has identified. By way of illustration, the chart on the following page straws <br /> that actions of varying degrees of intensity could be 'taken at the level of the <br />